Landshut wedding

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The bride, right on horseback Duke Georg
500 years Landshut wedding: German postage stamp from 1975

The Landshut Wedding is a historical festival that lasts several weeks and is currently performed every four years in the summer in Landshut , the last time from June 30th to July 24th 2017. It is a reminder of the Bavarian wedding in Landshut in 1475 Duke George the Rich with Hedwig Jagiellonica , daughter of the Polish King Casimir IV. Andrew , celebrated. The festival was included in the nationwide directory of intangible cultural heritage in 2018 .

Historic wedding

The marriage between Georg and Hedwig was of great political importance, because the union of the two sexes represented a strong alliance against the power of the Ottomans. The marriage was preceded by intensive discussions between the two royal houses in 1474, and the marriage was negotiated through embassies in Cracow .

18-year-old Hedwig's bridal trip began in the autumn of the following year. It lasted two months and led on the then poorly developed trade routes via Berlin , Wittenberg , Leipzig , Altenburg , Zwickau , Oelsnitz / Vogtl, among others . and, changing the planned route, via Eger and Regensburg , taking a detour to Nuremberg , before Hedwig and her bride-to-be, Otto II von Neumarkt , arrived in Landshut. Here the marriage aspirant was warmly welcomed by the princes and bishops who had traveled. The Elector of Brandenburg, Albrecht Achilles , compared the wedding with a divine providence for the benefit of Christianity and the Empire .

The wedding took place on November 14th and 15th, 1475 in Landshut. The bride and groom were married by Salzburg's Archbishop Bernhard von Rohr at the parish church of St. Martin , which dominates the city . The bridal procession then led through the old town to the town hall. There the Emperor Friedrich III. the bride to the wedding dance. It is reported that ten thousand guests attended, drank, danced and enjoyed the jousting tournament at the event.

The lavish celebrations, which lasted several days, were recorded in great detail by chroniclers. In a time of awakening national pride in the German Empire , the State Hall of Landshut Town Hall was renovated around 1880; Munich artists painted the walls with scenes of the Landshut wedding in 1475. These motifs were appealing and gave citizens the idea to re-enact the historical events. For this purpose the association Die Förderer e. V. , who presented the bridal procession to the public for the first time a year later.

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Landshut Town Hall. On the walls of the state hall there are scenes from the Landshut wedding. The picture was created at the end of the 19th century and was painted by August Spieß , Rudolf Seitz , Ludwig Löfftz and Konrad Weigand .

Today's historical festival

After the wedding was re-enacted for the first time by 145 participants in 1903 and a "festival as an introduction to the historical wedding events" was staged by Georg Schaumberg in 1905 , the move has matured to this day more into a historical documentary play in which large parts of the citizenry join: In the meantime, over 2000 participants in historical clothing from various stands take part.

From 1903 to 1914 and from 1922 to 1938 the parades took place annually, from 1950 to 1968 and again from 1975 to 1981 every three years. The Landshut wedding has been celebrated every four years since 1985. During the two world wars, the celebrations were eliminated, as from 1968 to 1975 after 1970 destroyed a fire numerous props and to a burst water pipe in the Gros had drawn the costumes affected.

The highlight is the Sunday on which the wedding procession and the wedding party move through the old town of Landshut. Other events show life in the camp, equestrian and knight games or the "Mummenschanz", which take place on the so-called Zehrplatz. The celebrations are still organized by the association Die Förderer e. V. , whose number of members has now risen to over 7,000. The approximately 2300 performers are Landshut citizens who enjoy reenacting the wedding in authentic historical clothing - for example, it is a tradition for male and female performers to let their hair grow long until the event, following the medieval model.

Visual impressions

Movies

  • The Landshut and their wedding. Documentation about one of the biggest historical festivals in Europe. Documentary, Germany, 2001, 135 min., Script and direction: Matthias Kiefersauer, production: megaherz , Bayerischer Rundfunk , summary by megaherz.
  • Love and money. The Landshut wedding. Documentary, Germany, 2009, 30 min., Script and direction: Barbara Schepanek and Steffi Illinger, production: hr , first broadcast: June 23, 2010 on hr-fernsehen , summary by prisma .
  • Under our skies. The Landshut wedding. Documentary, Germany, 2013, 43:30 min., Script and direction: Sebastian Bolenius, Alexander Brutscher, Anna Buck, Stefanie Freimuth, production: Bayerisches Fernsehen , series: Unter Unser Himmel, first broadcast: July 14, 2013 on BR , summary from BR.

literature

  • Thomas Alexander Bauer: Celebration under the eyes of chroniclers - The source texts for the Landshut princely wedding of 1475 , Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2008 ISBN 978-3-8316-0800-3 .
  • Roman Deutinger / Christof Paulus: The Reich visits Landshut. The narrative texts for the princely wedding in 1475 . Ostfildern: Thorbecke 2017, pp. 209–215 ISBN 978-3-7995-1155-1
  • Sigfrid Färber: A city plays the Middle Ages. History of the "Landshut Wedding 1475" and its performances from 1903 to 1975 . Landshut 1975.
  • Klaus Förg and Erich Stahleder: Landshut wedding . Rosenheimer Verlag, Rosenheim 1998, ISBN 3-475-52900-9 .
  • Hubert Glaser: The picture cycle in the town hall of Landshut and the history of the Landshut wedding . Association of Sponsors, Landshut 1984.
  • Gabriele Goderbauer-Marchner and Helmut Stix (eds.): Landshuter Hochzeit 1475, meeting point of Europe - then and now . Landshut 2009, ISBN 3-935339-36-4 .
  • Gabriele Goderbauer-Marchner and Helmut Stix (eds.): Landshut Wedding 1475, Colorful Middle Ages . Landshut 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-043964-3 .
  • Sebastian Hiereth: Landshut princely wedding 1475. Contemporary sources . Edited by the Historical Association for Lower Bavaria. Landshut 1959.
  • Sebastian Hiereth: Duke Georg's wedding in Landshut in 1475. A representation from contemporary sources . Edited by the Landshut Tourist Office. V. Landshut o. J.
  • Gerald Huber: The rich dukes. Bavaria's golden century . Friedrich Pustet Verlag, Regensburg 2013 ISBN 978-3791724836 .
  • Franz Niehoff (ed.): "In eren loves them", The Landshuter Hochzeit 1903-2005, approximations to the year 1475. Accompanying publication to the exhibition of the museums of the city of Landshut in the Museum im Kreuzgang from April 14th to August 15th, 2005 ( Writings from the museums of the city of Landshut 20). Landshut 2005 ISBN 3-924943-46-X .
  • Franz Niehoff (Ed.): Landshut Wedding since 1475, accompanying publication to the exhibition of the museums of the city of Landshut in the Spitalkirche Heiliggeist from June 27 to October 6, 2013 (writings from the museums of the city of Landshut, 32). Landshut 2013 ISBN 978-3-942626-28-6 .
  • Georg Soller (Ed.): The great Hallooo, how the Landshut wedding is made . Straubing 2005 ISBN 3-936-511-29-2 .
  • Erika Stadler: Landshut wedding 1475. From becoming a festival . Hornung, Riemerling 1991 ISBN 3-88804-038-8 .

Web links

Commons : Landshuter Hochzeit  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historical documentary play "Landshut Wedding 1475"
  2. ↑ Christof Paulus: Landshuter Hochzeit, 1475 , in: Historisches Lexikon Bayerns, published on October 9, 2017.
  3. ↑ Brochure look it up. Interesting facts about the "Landshuter Hochzeit 1475" and the association "Die Förderer" eV (PDF, 4.6 MB) on landshuter-hochzeit.de, p. 24.
  4. ^ Membership development - Landshut wedding. In: landshuter-hochzeit.de. Retrieved July 25, 2016 .